I am now a pizza guy….
Yesterday,I happened to pass by a pizza joint and could not resist the urge to enter it and order one.While I waited for my pizza (it was evening rush hour),I scribbled my thoughts on the borders of a take-away menu pamphlet.Here is my effort.Seems childish,but they say at 63,one becomes child-like again.Savour its delicious simplicity and spread the aroma,if you like it…..!!
I am now a pizza guy….
With fast food culture spreading,
With shortage of time for elaborate cooking,
With ease of telephonic ordering,Hi !
I have now become a pizza guy ……
Regular circular,square or heart shaped fun,
With toppings of cheese,onions or capsicums,
Its friendly warmth is always welcome,Oh boy !
I have now become a pizza guy…..
My sleepy tastebuds wake up going ting-a-ling,
My appetite,hunger pains make my tummy spin,
I treat myself,wishing bread,paratha,roti a bye !
I have now become a pizza guy…..
Pizza joints now here,there and everywhere,
Screaming banners,offering heavenly yummy fare,
Men or women,kids or elders,all can now for a pizza die,
I have now become a pizza guy…..
By the time my pizza had arrived (in about 20 minutes or so) I had completed the above four verses.I had to stop there to enjoy my pizza-hot and sizzling !!
Try composing a poem when you visit a pizza parlour next time and are waiting for your order to be fulfilled.
You made my mouth water pizza guy…
Shernaz Wadia
Pune
25th July 2011
Dear Shernaz,thanks for spreading the aroma of a mouth watering pizza…poem .
J S Broca
New Delhi
25th July 2011
Jo humaare mein hai daal roti…Pizza mein kahaan hai hoti…Par aapki kavita padh kar…Sochti hoon ek baar kha loon pet bhar…!!!
Manju Suri
New Delhi
25th July 2011
Dear Manjuji,thanks for responding.Hope you enjoyed a slice or more of a delicious pizza….pet bharr !
J S Broca
New Delhi
26th July 2011
The pizza-inspired poem is a real good read. Happy eating!
Malsawmi Jacob, Mumbai
July 26, 2011
Excellent spur-of-the-moment verse, Brocaji. Enjoyed it. Regards,
GSP Rao, Hyderabad
July 26, 2011
Dear Broca ji, Your instant Poem-Pizza (or Pizza-poem) is hot, round, hearty, savoury, and yummy yummy. We must bow our head before everything that makes us children again. With best regards,
NS Murty, Bangalore
July 26, 2011
Dear Malsawmiji and dear Rao Sahebji, thanks a lot for enjoying a slice of my pizza poem.Bon Appetite !
J S BROCA, New Delhi
July 26, 2011
Dear Murty ji,thanks for your yummy yummy response to my pizza instant poem.Such rare flights of fancy are moments to be cherished.GBU.
J S Broca
New Delhi
27th July 2011
Jatinder ji, akele mat khao bhai,
hum dono banenge pizza guy –
mushroom se hoga must, cheese se kya cheez hui
hum dono banenge pizza guy!
Kumarendra Mallick, Rhode Island
July 27, 2011
Dear Mallickji, thanks for sharing my pizza poem from abroad ! GBU ALL !
J S BROCA, New Delhi
Jul 27, 2011
Dear Broca ji,
Your lip-smacking poem” I am now a pizza guy” – oh, what a spring and sprint you’ve packed it with! I’ve loved it; and sent the following response just now to MI (excluding the footnotes). Hope you’d love it too.
Hi there! Reading your sweet-sixteen lines on the sizzling pizza;
Drooling, I joined the line leading to a point in Amritsar.
Wow! When my turn came at last, I grabbed them right and left lotsa.
Umpteen orders and servings, yeah – washed it down with a spritzer;
All the night turning a waltzer, my hand holding a tazza.
Jai Jatinder! Your impromptu lines should grab the Pulitzer.
Your jingling change of ‘tingling’ into the tangy ‘ting-a-ling’
And the lyrical “have now become a pizza guy”, ah Singh!
What a refrain! So lilting, titillating, scintillating!
Atreya Sarma
28th July 2011
Dear Atreya,I will borrow McDonalds tag line: “I AM LOVING IT !”
Thanks for your witty and poetical rejoinder.
J S BROCA
New Delhi
28th July 2011
Pizza is a favourite of all. It needs no age to savour. Good verse written on the spur of the moment
Krishna Bose, Kolkata
Aug 02, 2011
Jatinder ji,
Hi, Pizza Guy !!
Im transported to a world of Pizzas
A Chicken Mexicana and Kheema do Pyazaas
A Veg Extravagansa
and a Double Cheeze Margarita!!
Badi bhookh lagi hai ; hai hai !!
DEAR READERS,
Sometime back I had sent this poem to BOLO KIDS …and forgot about it..I NOW FIND IT WAS PUBLISHED there on 27th April 2012.
Here is the link :
I am now a pizza guy…
http://www.bolokids.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1252
Do visit the site and leave your comments.THANKS
J S BROCA
NEW DELHI
9TH AUG 12
Wow Jatinder,
After reading your random thoughts on Pizzas on BOLOKIDS , those who do not like pizzas too will want to try some. Though Im not a Pizza girl (at 64) but I shall surely try a pizza to see if it tastes as good as your description of it. Thanks
Nilouffer
08/09/2012